february in alaska
wandering aimlessly
- Sep 13, 2023
- 465
Not just on a cosmic scale of meaning. Even just in our society. I don't understand how people can live happily when it all feels so manufactured and tedious and exhausting.
I'm going to run the risk of sounding like an entitled whiny brat here, but life fucking SUCKS. This whole thing.
So, what— I have to work most of my life away for at least fifty or sixty more years? In a job I will probably hate, waking up every morning and dreading every second of it? Coming home exhausted, not having time for anything I actually enjoy, living paycheck to paycheck, dealing with other people and probably never managing to find friends or a partner, dealing with typical life related issues and grief and loss and frustration— like, for what? Where is the silver lining here? When does this all become worth it? Watching the world burn itself to the ground on the news every day? Knowing I'm technically one of the "lucky" ones and STILL hating my own life?
I wish we lived in a world where we didn't have to work 9-5 every day without hope of retiring. I wish mental health resources were actually available and affordable and we had the right to leave if we chose to. I wish I didn't have to live in constant anxiety over being SA'd when I'm going home at night. I wish I could check out from the world and sleep for an entire week if I wanted to. I wish I could spend all my time on my hobbies without stress or anxiety or being forced into something else. If we're all stuck here, why has no one fixed all this shit yet? I can't see it getting better anytime soon
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the best suicide prevention would be making the word worth living in… not chaining people down and forcing them to live in the world we have now
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but this is all I can think about lately. It makes me so angry. In a hundred years everyone alive right now will be gone, so what does it really matter for any of us? Why do we even CARE about keeping a broken system running just so the next generations can suffer through it too? God, I hope our species gets wiped out. Put us all out of our fucking misery
I'm going to run the risk of sounding like an entitled whiny brat here, but life fucking SUCKS. This whole thing.
So, what— I have to work most of my life away for at least fifty or sixty more years? In a job I will probably hate, waking up every morning and dreading every second of it? Coming home exhausted, not having time for anything I actually enjoy, living paycheck to paycheck, dealing with other people and probably never managing to find friends or a partner, dealing with typical life related issues and grief and loss and frustration— like, for what? Where is the silver lining here? When does this all become worth it? Watching the world burn itself to the ground on the news every day? Knowing I'm technically one of the "lucky" ones and STILL hating my own life?
I wish we lived in a world where we didn't have to work 9-5 every day without hope of retiring. I wish mental health resources were actually available and affordable and we had the right to leave if we chose to. I wish I didn't have to live in constant anxiety over being SA'd when I'm going home at night. I wish I could check out from the world and sleep for an entire week if I wanted to. I wish I could spend all my time on my hobbies without stress or anxiety or being forced into something else. If we're all stuck here, why has no one fixed all this shit yet? I can't see it getting better anytime soon
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the best suicide prevention would be making the word worth living in… not chaining people down and forcing them to live in the world we have now
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but this is all I can think about lately. It makes me so angry. In a hundred years everyone alive right now will be gone, so what does it really matter for any of us? Why do we even CARE about keeping a broken system running just so the next generations can suffer through it too? God, I hope our species gets wiped out. Put us all out of our fucking misery